YeeHah Christmas Time

Gingerbread Houses

Cody's goal in being an Uncle is to help Amari crawl or even better walk.

He does exercises with her whenever we are over there and urges her to progress. I can't wait to see him with our own kids. They are going to be the best at EVERYTHING! (I am already bragging and I don't even have any conceived yet)

All of Mindy's kids love mommy's new dog: Sylvee Loo ( I know abby and mom have the spelling all picked out and I probably slaughtered it but i tried sorry). Zander was being so loving here!

Sweet Amari is very good at sharing...

...and so is Ellee!

We start the gingerbread houses... Zander decided he did not want to work on his families house but wanted to help me. He let poor tired Cody take a nap and quickly named himself chief architect. It was beyond fun. I love my zanderzoozy!

Mindy and Mom got the memo about wearing Christmas colors.

Drake is very happy and super photogenic...look at that smile.

Irelynd looks lethal with the iceing aimed that way

uhhhh...

mmmm...

YAYAYAYAYAY I love candy and gingerbread!

Abby and Devo's house was color coordinated even thought devn had to steal some skittles from my house. "I would expect that from Jeffrey but not from you dev!"

Zander and I were a spectacular team. He is very creative and very good and sticking candy in nice little neat roles.

Devy wevy as a normal big brother decided to do the boy thing and decorate my front yard snow angel...

Irelynd wanted a snow man so Mom tried to make one with the frosting and it didn't really hold up very well so mom asked me to fix it so being the funny person I am I put to black licorice ends and a half a skittle. We thought it was pretty funny and Irelynd loved it and grabbed us back a few minutes later and had added the pretzal arms... heehee

Cody and I make such a cute couple hu? Us and our cute final production (Zander had to go to bed so Cody basically took a picture with me).

Finishing a wonderful eveing in the best way possible, Mindy brought out some fabtabulous hot chocolate. (all those who know me must realize that I am a hot cocoa connoisseur and praise from me is a big deal)!

bear denning!

Bruised and Bloody....and looking like a penguin

For some reason I thought it was a good idea to run straight into a brick wall...sometimes ideas don't turn out the way you want them too...ok you got me..another lie... I was playing flag football and going for the qb sack but unfortunately the girl didn't dodge and I ran straight into her and ended up with a fat bloody lip and a fat bloody nose...OUCH!
I tried to take some pictures for sympathy but none of them turned out spectacular...talk to Paul if you want the real info I made him come over and look. Alright enjoy the pictures and feel sad for me!

does my nose look broken here? it really hurts...

BYU FOOTBALL

Last night BYU defeated TSU making us a really cool school. I am sure it meant something but to me football games mean socializing with cousins and brothers, seeing my grandparents, yelling until I go hoarse, and eating hotdogs! I don't have pictures from last nights game but here are a few from the one against someone last week.

Cody and I are such a freaking sweet couple (matching of course!)

Steph and Ryan our bestest friends...

Me and Erica...she was bored sitting with the old people ;)

Paul and Christine...I hope she isn't putting pressure on his hurt shoulder (you should have seen the touchdown--it was amazing!

OK erica got bored sitting with us too and so I painted her nails dark pink(aka red but she only wanted pink)

Here is an awesome shot of all of our group singing...you have to bear with my horrible voice and it is really too loud putting the sound on silent might be a good idea!

marathon runners FoREvEr

So Cody and I went running tonight!
I made him wear matchy st george marathon tees...remember that was why we met? I think we will be running partners forever. Imagine us holding hands running into the sunset together forever....

home for a time...sigh

I was missing home soooo much that my dear Cody went home with me for a weekend. It was so much fun! There is something about home that just makes me completely utterly happy! I love it! Cody had to write his proposal for research so I mostly canned with my Momma (yummy apple pie filling) and played with my cutie niece Ellee! We went on a walk to pit park and petted the llamas...

pooper scooped....

and played in fall leaves...what a scary black Halloween cat (jk it's mitzi and she's not all black)

Here is everyone being scary with gummy fangs

ok devos look the realest...becasue Victory is his! He really did win all the games we played!

halloween!!!!!! wahahahahhhhhh!!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!SO I THINK THIS IS GROSS YET FASCINATING...PEOPLE HAVE CAME UP WITH SOME INCREDIBLE HALLOWEEN DECORATIONS....THIS ONE LOOKED PRETTY REAL

SO CODY AND I SPENT THE EVENING WITH THE FABULOUS BROWN FAMILY. IT IS SO FUN TO GO TRICK-OR-TREATING ESPECIALLY WITH CUTE KIDS WHO ARE SO EXCITED ABOUT EVERYTHING!

ZANDER WAS A FEARSOME PIRATE. HE WAS CRACKING ME UP ALL NIGHT WITH HIS PIRATE TALK. I LOVE THAT KID.: SILVERSTASH THE DREADED PIRATE....RUN AND HIDE SO HE WON'T MAKE YOU WALK THE PLANK!AMARI WAS A SWEET DALMATIAN, I THINK BY THE END OF THE NIGHT SHE WAS EVEN BARKING. SHE TOUGHED IT OUT AND SPENT MOST OF THE NIGHT TRICK-OR-TREATING WITH US. sIGH, SHE IS SO CUTE.DRAKE WAS JANGO FHETT AND VERY SCARY "GIVE ME SOME CANDY OR I'LL SHOOT YOU" WAS THE BEST PHRASE OF THE NIGHT. CODY BROUGHT OUT LIGHTSABERS AND DRAKE AND CODY DUELED ALL NIGHT LONG. CODY LOVES TO HAVE SOMEONE TO THROW AROUND AND I THINK DRAKE DOESN'T MIND THE ROUGH PLAY TOO MUCH. I HELD HIS HELMET IN BETWEEN HOUSES...THOSE THINGS ARE HARD TO SEE THROUGH. SO WHAT DO YOU THINK JANGO'S REAL FACE LOOKS LIKE? PROBABLY NOT AS CUTE AS OUR DEAR DRAKEY!IRELYND DIDN'T EVEN DRESS UP. SHE IS AN ANGEL WHO MANAGED TO GAIN A VERY HEAVY CANDY BAG BY SMILING LIKE A PRINCESS AND GRANTING A FEW WISHES...DO ANGELS GRANT WISHES? WELL WHEN I BECOME ONE I AM GOING TO! MINDY WAS A VERY SCARY LADY. IT IS FUNNY TO SEE HER SMILE WITH THAT WICKED MAKEUP ON. NOT MANY PEOPLE RECOGNIZED HER AS WE WALKED AROUND FROM HOUSE TO HOUSE I THINK IT IS A NICE WITNESS TO HER SWEET COUNTENANCE AND ALWAYS SMILING FACE! PS SHE ALSO MADE THE BEST BREADSTICKS, SOUP, AND PUMPKIN BARS!...MMMMM

CUTE BROWNS IN FRONT OF THEIR HOUSE. THEY ARE VERY FESTIVE. I HOPE TO BE LIKE THAT WHEN I GROW UP!

AMARI WENT STRAIGHT FOR THE CANDY BASKET ONCE WE ARRIVED HOME. SHE DOESN'T CRAWL YET BUT SHE IS JUST AS EFFICIENT AS SCOOTING TO WHEREVER SHE WOULD LIKE TO GO.

THIS IS ONE OF THE BROWNS GIGANTIC PUMPKINS--THEY ARE HUGE...I GUESS JASON CARVED THEM WITH A SAWSALL. MY QUESTION IS WHAT DID THEY DO WITH ALL THE INNARDS EKKK

THIS IS THE KIDS TRICK-OR-TREATING

DRAKE AND I WERE BOTH VERY FEROCIOUS ...GRRRRR

CODY TOOK HIS TURN HOLDING MARMAR SO THAT I COULD TAKE PICTURES...I TOOK SOME REALLY AWESOME ONES WITH MINDY'S CAMERA TOO THAT I COULDN'T GET OFF OF HER COMPUTER...

THIS GUY WAS VERY SCARY. PEOPLE APPARENTLY DON'T REALIZE THAT MANY OF THIS LITTLE FIGURES ARE REALLY LITTLE KIDS NOT FEARSOME PIRATES. LOOK AT POOR ZANDERS FACE THIS GUY WAS VERY LOUD AND GROWLY TOO. HE SCARED ME NOT TO MENTION SOMEONE 20 YEARS YOUNGER THEN ME. ZANDER WAS ULTRA SCARY IN JASON'S MASK...I THINK I HAD NIGHTMARES ABOUT IT LAST NIGHT..EEEEKKK